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ISAAC WAS AN UNBUTTERED BAGEL kind of a guy. Plain. That’s why we have the old saying: “An Abraham is usually followed by an Isaac.” Abraham was exciting. He ventured into unknown territory, chased down a raiding party to take back what they stole, …
I’M LUCKY ENOUGH to go to a church that does more than complain about how bad the world is. We do something to help turn it in a better direction. This past weekend, my Bible study class divided up into 3 teams and we took on repair and …
IF GOD IS SO GOOD, why’d he kill everybody—people and animals? Killing everybody is overkill. If someone at the dinner table offends you, it’s not kosher to kill them. And it certainly makes no sense to kill everyone else, too, along with Buddy the …
THERE WAS A TIME when the southern Jewish nation of Judah had a queen instead of a king. Not just any queen. She was the daughter of King Ahab and possibly Jezebel, the notorious couple who ruled the northern Jewish nation of Israel. Athaliah …
THE FACEBOOK POST that I read this week caught me off guard. It was from a friend. A recovering alcoholic, she quoted a few sentences from “Bill’s Story,” in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. The quote referred to one man’s struggle to accept any of the …
IT SURPRISES MANY PEOPLE, but the Bible doesn’t say that Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. “The boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). Like the Rockies, Ararat is a mountain range. It runs along the border of Turkey, …
I PROMISED in Friday’s blog to report on a few theories that Bible experts have to explain why folks in the first 10 generations of human beings lived nearly 1,000 years each. Spoiler alert: not one of the theories rings the bell. Not as far as …
I’M WORKING IN GENESIS at the moment and I’ve hit that speed bump about folks living 900 years or more. I’ll give you what I’ve got so far. See if you can finish it. There are certainly theories about how to handle the numbers, and I’ll report …
I JUST GOT AN ADVANCE COPY of Who’s Who & Where’s Where in the Bible 2.0. It’s not due in bookstores until next week. It’s an expanded, updated version of the first book I ever wrote for this particular publisher. The …
IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFETIME, I haven’t come across many preachers worth listening to. At least not during their sermons. At one point in my life I just came to the conclusion that they talked too much. Really. That they were called on to …
LAST WEEK A HARVARD BIBLE SCHOLAR, Dr. Karen King, announced the discovery of a tiny shred of an ancient book that contains this jarring line: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife’…” The book—apparently part of a previously lost Gospel about …
I’M TRYING MY HAND at some easy-reading Bible commentary. Here’s a rough cut, first draft on an excerpt about the snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake that chatted up Eve. This section zeroes in on the line about God vowing perpetual …
